DETECTIVELAND
by Robin Johnson
Walkthrough
Firstly, a note on the map: New Losago has a simple grid system with
five east-west streets alphabetised from north to south (Kentucky to
Ohio), and six north-south avenues numbered from west to east, then
Princeley Boulevard running north-south down the east side of the city.
You can get about by walking, or call a taxi (if you have some money)
from the phone booths that are scattered around.
First things first:
- Open the filing cabinet and get everything that comes out. Fire the
revolver (to discover that it's actually a cigarette lighter.)
- Take the book from the bookcase. Get the photo and look at it. Refold
the Murphy bed.
You initially have three cases available to you. These can be done in
any order, and more than one can be open at once. Open a case by
talking to one of the clients waiting in the office building, just
outside your office. You can have more than one case open at once (but
you can't open them all straight away, because you can't have more
than one client in your office at once. If you leave a client in your
office once their case is open, they'll go home after a few turns.)
SPEAKEASY STREET (the rat-faced man)
- Leave your office and talk to the rat-faced man in the hallway. Ask
him about all the topics. Read the flyer he gives you.
- Leave and go to the funeral parlour (you can get a cab by calling it
from the payphone, or walk - it's one block north.)
- Try getting past the receptionist - you can't. Go back out and talk
to the two guys.
- When they carry one of the coffins in, open a coffin. Remove the
booze. You need to leave it where they won't find it - one block south
will do. Drop it there, then go back and get in a coffin. They will
carry it in. Once you're inside, talk to Vivenne. Get the car keys
(either Vivienne will give them to you, or you can get them out of her
desk in the office when she's out of the room.)
- Go back outside.
- Go to the lumberyard at Ohio and 1st. Talk to the manager and the
workers. (For more honest answers, talk to the workers when the manager
isn't around.) Get the oilcan. Try to get the account book.
- There are two ways to get the account book. One is to bring the
booze to the lumberyard and put it down inside. The workers will down
tools and start drinking. The other is to call Cawmill's bluff and go
and get a warrant from the police station - for which you'll need to
bribe Officer Garroway (hold the money while talking to him to get
this option) - then get in Garroway's car and, after he drives to the
lumberyard, lead him to Mr Cawmill.
- Read the account book to find the address of the house in Princeley
Heights. You could also have got this from the trumpet player in the
speakeasy.
- Go to that address. Climb the gate to get in. Go into the stable and
get the tarpaulin and the bale of hay. Enter the house. Take the soft
houseshoes and wear them. Look at the photos on the wall.
- You have to get through the house without making any noise. If you
fail, you'll end up in the hospital, and you can go back and try
again. Start by going upstairs. Oil the dresser to stop it creaking,
then open it. Take the pillow and sheet.
- You can now explore the rest of the ground floor. In the front room,
you need to throw the sheet (or the tarpaulin) over the birdcage
before the bird squawks, then drop the pillow (or the bale of hay) to
catch the china set when it falls. In the back room, you need to drop
the hay bale (or pillow - whichever you didn't use for the front room)
to catch the sculpture.
- Once you're out the back, go through the hole in the hedge, then
along the trail to Swampy Hollow. Talk to the old hillbilly. When he
gives you a drink, drink it. When he mentions his granddaughter, ask
about her.
- You'll need to sneak back through the house with the soft shoes on,
and remove them before climbing over the front gate. Then go to the
law firm at Maine and 5th. Talk to the lawyer and the secretary. Try
telling the lawyer about her past. Look in the inbox and find the
demolition order. Show it to Mary Jo Lou Belle. She'll walk out of the
job.
- Go outside and talk to Mary Jo Lou Belle in the street. You now have
a choice - you can either suggest she go home and carry on making
booze, or not.
- Wexler will have left a note in your office with the address for his
apartment. Go there and get the other half of your money, if he thinks
you deserve it.
A STUDY IN SQUID (the pale young man)
- Leave your office and talk to the pale young man. Ask about all his
conversation topics. Get the first half of your money.
- Leave the office building and go one block south, then one
block west, to Nebraska Streeet and 2nd Avenue. Enter the dilapidated
house.
- Go north to the end of the hallway, and get the crowbar. The lamp is
optional - you do need a light source for this case, but you can use
the flashlight from your office instead.
- Go south to the hall, then west to the study. Take the letter to
Distain and read it. Type on the typewriter, then pick up the
typewriter paper. Try to read it.
- Pick up the statuette of a raven to open the trap door in the hall.
- Go back east to the hall, descend the ladder, and turn on your light
(either the oil lamp or the flashlight.)
- Go through the cellar door.
- Hold the crowbar and remove the planks from the wall. (You can also
use the handsaw from the lumberyard, if you happen to have been there
on another case.) Go through the hole.
- If you go east, then east
again, you will get into the sewers. You won't be able to find your
way through yet, but you can always go UP to get out (this will put
you at a random point in the city.)
- Follow the tunnel northwest, then north. (You can ride the minecart,
but the idea is that to work out where the tunnel goes, you need to
walk it. You could also talk to Marcus about the tunnel, once you've
found it, to get a clue.)
- The tunnel goes to the city dockyard, which you can enter from
Louisiana Street and 1st Avenue. Go there. Hold the crowbar and open
the manhole.
- Enter the fishing boat. Talk to the sailor. Ask her about the boat,
and her partner, and the ink, and the tunnels. She'll give you a map
of the sewers.
- Go back to the sewer (you can get there quickly through the
tunnel from the dockyard.) When you're in the sewer, read the map. It
will always take you to the other 'end' of the sewer system.
- Use the crowbar or handsaw to remove the planks at this end. Go
through the hole.
- Look at the aquarium.
- Talk to the guy in the overcoat. Ask him about himself, and this
room, and the squid, and their ink.
- When the ultraviolet lamp is on, try reading the typewriter paper
again.
- Go back through the hole, and read the map again to get to the
"house" end of the sewer system.
- Go back to the fishing boat. Tell the sailor about the letter. (This
is optional, but clues you to some information that you need to get
the 'best' ending.)
- Go back to the study in the Distain house, where Marcus is now. Tell
him about the smuggling and the tunnels. Collect your reward.
Optional, but necessary to get the 'best' ending:
- The treasure that was hidden in the house was the doorknob, which
you can get $2,000 for if you take it to the pawn shop at Maine and
2nd.
- When you have over $2000 (which can only be done by either pawning
the doorknob or finding A LOT of change on the sidewalk), you can go to
the hospital where Ruby works (at Ohio and 3rd) and pop the question.
(If you previously asked her about your relationship, she'll have
mentioned that you'd need at least a couple thousand in savings.)
THE BIG PICKLE (the flustered dame)
- Leave your office and talk to the flustered dame in the hallway. Ask
her about all the topics. When she gives you the notepaper, read it.
- Leave the building (out, twice) then call a cab from the phone box.
Talk to the cabbie and ask to go to the Macdonald house. (Taxi
destinations are added as you explore or gain information.)
- Enter the house. Go to the kitchen and look in the refrigerator and
cupboards. Get the belljar and turpentine. Open the belljar and taste
the sandwich.
- Go upstairs and explore both bedrooms.
- Now find Mrs Macdonald (she's wandering around the house) and ask
her about science and the sandwich, then the hate mail.
- Go outside. Find a cab and go to Corndale College. Enter.
- There are two ways to get past the students. One is to dress up like
a professor, which involves wearing the professor's jacket and smoking
the pipe (you'll need to put the tobacco in it and light it with the
lighter.) The other is to climb the flagpole, for which you'll need
either to apply turpentine to remove the slippery paint, or wear the
driving gloves from the hearse in "Speakeasy Street".
- Go to the south end of campus and enter the science building. Look
at the staff photographs to find Professor Maconald's laboratory. Open
his mailbox (Mrs Macdonald should have given you the key). Read the
hate mail. Read the crumpled menu, and pick up the iron key which
falls out.
- Go to the Italian restaurant at Maine Street and 4th Avenue.
- Try to open the utility closet. To get rid of the chef, you'll need
to order a pizza. Ask for the three spicy toppings - spicy salami,
chilies, and hot sauce. When the chef goes into the kitchen, hold the
iron key and open the utility closet. Untie the professor, then pick up
the spaghetti and 'tie' it to some chairs) to make a tripwire. When
the chef returns, he'll trip and end up swallowing the pizza, so if
it's triple-spicy, he'll be incapacitated and you've won the case.
- Go back and talk to Mrs Macdonald to get your money, or the rest of
it.
A TWISTY LITTLE MURDER
Whichever of those three cases you did last, you won't have been able
to get your money at the end, because your client has been murdered.
- Search the corpse. (If you don't search the corpse, but instead go
and report the murder to the police, you'll get a 'bad' ending.)
- You've been kidnapped by the senator and taken to the docks. Talk to
him until he's told you about his plan.
- There are three ways to get out of this:
- If you go straight on to the fishing boat, you can ask
the sailor for help. (Ending 1)
- To go anywhere else, you need to get a headstart on the
Cardiccis by going through the tunnel and riding the minecart.
- If you go to the police station, you can ask Officer Garroway for
help. You'll need to bribe him (hold the money while talking to
him to get this option.) (Ending 2)
- If you go to the hospital AND you have already proposed to Ruby,
you can ask her for help. (Ending 3, or another 'bad' ending if
you haven't proposed yet.)